James Fitzgerald
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392 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 6 Sep
James Fitzgerald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They never actually opened up the letter until like noon Sunday when they finally got into the lab.
We missed a classic chance to actually have someone talk to
talk to it, uh talk to the people that morning and uh and and and it turns out there was an incoming call to that payphone at six AM that no one ever picked up.
And I've as a linguist, I just always wonder what it would be like to have been on that call and we could have really narrowed down even where they came from.
Agents in the Newark division, there was about a hundred of them, all in in in cars.
They went to every payphone uh i i in like North Jersey and they sat on it.
And sure enough, uh, 'cause they knew a call was coming in to some tip line somewhere, and sure enough, someone sees a c a guy get out of a car, a woman's in the car, makes the call, and the case gets put together from there.
They stop the car and they were the
uh they were the kidnappers.
So that exactly could have been done.
Overnight they could have had they would have had, you know, eight six to eight hours to put agents around every phone booth.
It wouldn't have been easy and they could have missed it.
We're not denying that.
They could have made the arrest potentially right then and there and definitely saved a few more lives.
So at the time of the DC Sniper case, I'm in my Georgetown master's program in linguistics, and I happen to be taking a um a course in sociolinguistics, and we were studying US dialects.
And I was learning about Boston dialects, New York, Philadelphia, which is mine, uh other parts of the country, and I realized it's not all geographical, it's cultural.
And here I notice on this letter, uh, and one of
One of the uh hallmarks, if you will, one of the features of black vernacular English, there's a name for it, is uh uh a lot of black people, spoken and writing, drop the S's on either possessive words or plural words.
And here in this note, when the first two pages alone, this letter, I think there were four pages total, uh the person writes the word negotiation, should have been plural, demand should have been plural.
plural with an S and ten million dollar, which of course should have been plural.
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